PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Solution Architect/Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecture leadership in key foundational, analytics, and EPIC (Electric Program Investment Charge) R & D projects - OSI PI, Grid Ops Situational Intelligence/ Grid Ops Decision Optimization, System Tool For Asset Risk (STAR), SCADA Data Availability, from strategy to delivery.
• Successfully demonstrated integration of more than 25 data sources for a situational intelligence dashboard, including Meter Outage Event stream during storm conditions and PI data stream. (IoT) Leveraging company's OSI PI investment

Technical Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Trusted Technical Advisor for IBM Global Business Services clients. 75% of work in delivery, 25% in pre-sales.
• Architecture leadership for an Enterprise Analytics Roadmap; SmartGrid Data Assessment & Strategy.
• Team leader/ Scrum master for several work streams for Point of Sale Innovation's refactoring of a monolithic POS system into services, enabling access by mobile and 3 rd party clients.
• Retail clients include Walmart, Sam's Club, and Sears. Business Intelligence & Analytics clients include Energy Utilities, Biotech, Manufacturing

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Established Enterprise Architecture practice with a boutique consulting company, led Information Architecture discipline
• Lead Architect for Marketing Roadmap, a multi-year program with customer facing changes such as personalized coupons, comparing competitor pricing, and focused category offerings at the store level with corresponding changes to the supply chain.
• Technical risk mitigation through architecture assessment of candidate architectures.

Data Architect/Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Independent Consulting. Data Architect for the re-platform of an Informix data mart and expansion into an enterprise data warehouse on Teradata ( Confidential ). Development and modification of data models via Erwin and ModelMart.
• Developed and taught Advanced Data Modeling Course (Golden Gate University Graduate Program)

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Sr. Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Plan, execute and deliver solutions, from creating architecture artifacts to hands-on delivery
• Led cross functional teams to successful deployments using a variety of resources including off-shore resources
• Perform trusted advisor role as solution architect, enterprise architect, and date architect for clients, delivering on premise and cloud solutions
• Risk mitigator, problem solver, trouble shooter for solutions my team is delivering
• Develop current state & future state architectures and roadmaps for a cohesive architecture using legacy and new technologies
• Worked with many product managers and vendors - startups as well as established vendors, developing many RFI/RFP responses, Proofs- of concept and production rollouts
• Assess total cost of ownership for proposed architecture & technology options, benefits, implementation requirements; communicate these to stakeholders and/or architecture review board
• Led Data architecture strategy and data model design, development, & deployment for Data Warehouse an Business Intelligence solutions in the following environments: traditional data warehouse, data lake and modern data architecture
• Provide thought leadership, best practices, and standards required to deliver effective reporting, data visualization and data discovery solutions to the various business units and executives .

Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Solutions Architect - architecture leadership role in key analytics systems and projects for Smart Grid; also performing Domain Architect role for Data & Analytics
• Solution Architect for a situational intelligence R&D project in electric grid operations which provided visualization and insights from over 25 data sources. These included smart meter outage events in real-time using the OSB, outages, scheduled work, planned clearances, abnormal states every 5 minutes, a data stream from OSI PI for SCADA overload, and daily file imports of the network connectivity, smart meter aggregation and SAP Construction Work. Common model based on CIM. Technologies used: Oracle Service Bus, Informatica, Grid Director product using Elasticsearch indices, ESRI, Google Maps, GeoServer, OSI PI, Silver Springs Network UIQ, DMS, PostgreSQL.
• Solution Architect for a Data Historian project converting from a custom historian to OSI PI using a custom web interface to historize and view time series SCADA data.
• Solution Architect for various dashboards: Volt-VAR optimization pilot, SCADA Data Availability, FLISR (Fault Location, Identification, Service Restoration) leveraging data from OSI PI and Smart Meter systems, analytics data store and using various visualization tools (Tableau, Esri Operations Dashboard, PI), physical stores using Oracle SDE and Spatiotemporal Big Data Store (SDBS) for Esri.
• Solution Architect for System Tool for Asset Risk - Asset analytics using STI in hosted environment (Azure) for the Proof of Concept. Conducted STAR Project product selection and developed a solution blueprint using SAP PdMS on HANA for multi­tenant platform with SAP IQ or Hadoop persistent store, leveraging the Situational Intelligence Reference Architecture
• Solution architecture includes conceptual, application, security, network, and deployment architectures in internal cloud and Salesforce.com.
• Domain architect role for Data & Analytics - member of Data & Analytics Technical Architecture working group, Operational & Situational Intelligence Working group, establishing Data & Analytics Strategy, Information Value Chain; continue onboarding Xtensible to establish Data Model Governance and establishing key components of Enterprise Information Management.